EU top diplomat suggests setting up long-term Ukraine Defence Fund for arms supplies

The European Union needs to consider turning the European Peace Facility that has been used to fund weapons for Kyiv into a more permanent tool to arm the country in the long term, the EU's top diplomat suggested on Thursday. "We talk about security commitments.

The European Union needs to consider turning the European Peace Facility that has been used to fund weapons for Kyiv into a more permanent tool to arm the country in the long term, the EU's top diplomat suggested on Thursday.

"We talk about security commitments. From my side, it means military support for Ukraine has to have a long haul... during the war and after the war," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said as he arrived for an EU summit in Brussels.

"So the European Peace Facility for Ukraine maybe has to become a Ukraine Defence Fund - the training has to continue, the modernization of the army has to continue."